The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) announced in Government Gazette No. 44876 on Tuesday that it had declared the ongoing drought in the Eastern, Western and Northern Capes a national disaster in line with the Disaster…
DA shadow MEC for rural development and agrarian reform Retief Odendaal has called on EC premier Oscar Mabuyane to decalre a Provincial State of Disaster in response to the ongoing drought that grips the province. “The entire western half…
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has fired health MEC Sindiswa Gomba. Mabuyane announced he had fired Gomba at a news conference on Thursday. This was after she was released on R1,000 bail each by the East London magistrate’s court on…
Eastern Cape and Garden Route beaches will be closed for about three weeks this festive season starting from Wednesday. This was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night. Ramaphosa said the decision was taken after Nelson…
The total number of Covid-19 deaths stood at 2,413 on Saturday, with 131,800 confirmed cases. This is a 7,210 jump in the number of confirmed cases from the last report by the national health department. As of today, the cumulative number…
SIMTEMBILE MGIDI As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise across the province, the office of the premier said it was intensifying efforts to contain the virus through mass screening and targeted testing of significant contacts. A…
South Africa passed another grim Covid-19 milestone on Monday, as it surpassed the 100,000 mark for confirmed infections. This is less than three months since the first recorded death. There were also a further 61 Covid-19 related deaths…
The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) has welcomed a court ruling interdicting a livestock company from exporting 70,000 sheep at a feedlot in the Eastern Cape to the Middle East. The interdict was granted in favour of the NSPCA on…
About 80% of people in the Eastern Cape are likely to contract Covid-19. The estimate, by the Eastern Cape department of health, is contained in a report presented to the Eastern Cape coronavirus command council, reports HeraldLIVE. Of…
At least 59,000 jobs could be lost in the Eastern Cape as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. About 14,000 of these positions could be shed in the next three months alone. This is the grim outlook contained in a report from premier Oscar…
The number of South Africans to die of Covid-19 has climbed to 148, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Ten deaths were reported in the last 24 hours – seven of them in the Western Cape and one each in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and…
By Lulamile Feni and Ray Hartle The first Covid-19 death in the OR Tambo district has been reported, bringing to four the number of deaths as a result of the virus in the Eastern Cape. Health minister Zweli Mkhize confirmed the four…
As the number of Covid-19 cases increased to 104 in the Eastern Cape, Nelson Mandela Bay has recorded its second death related to the global pandemic. This as the number of confirmed cases in the metro has risen to 51. Health MEC Sindiswa…
Nelson Mandela Bay has recorded its first Covid-19 death. Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba confirmed that a retired nurse died in the early hours of Thursday morning at Livingstone Hospital. “We were hopeful her condition would…
From Gonubie to Motherwell, Elliotdale to Makhanda, Covid-19 has spread rapidly across the Eastern Cape, with confirmed cases now at 32. South Africa now has 1,686 cases, with 12 deaths tied to the disease. Below is a list of the…
